There are many ways people attempt to tackle this: emit tokens, straight up pay makers, list new coins before anyone else, self-trading, get trader partnerships, offer fiat ramp - some more legally dubious than others, but end of the day something needs to be done to bootstrap.

You guys have plans to attract more liquidity down the road? Right now the non-existence of an order book is a vicious feedback - unattractive to takers because there's no depth, and unattractive to makers because takers aren't coming, parking coins there is fruitless.

If we don't solve infrastructure funding, entities with agendas we don't like will always seek to control the commons. There will always be more blockstreams and more nchains.
People hate ICOs for reasons I largely agree with, but we haven't found a good alternative so far.

"Proof of work is king because bunkers and signals... wait nevermind, market is king because markets know value... wait nevermind, hodl everything because I don't know... wait nevermind, fuck it, whatever I like is valuable and whatever I don't like is stupid"

It's not possible to "follow chronological order" in a decentralized system anyway, the whole point of bitcoin is to resolve doublespends in a system where nodes don't agree with each other - "agree on a single history". Any system that works for this purpose fits the paper.

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People keep talking about "when block rewards are gone", an event a couple decades or a century down depending on your tolerance, when it's not even clear their coin is gonna still be relevant next year. smh